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(Post a comment) » The Great HDCP FiascoLooking forward to HD-DVD and Blu-Ray playback now that you have your GeForce 6 or 7, or ATI AVIVO Radeon? It’s too bad. None of the current cards from ATI or NVIDIA available at retail will support HDCP. Yep, you read that right: that $500 video card you just bought doesn’t support HDCP! |  Previous news article | Back to main news | Next news article  |
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Anonymous at 03:37pm 05/22/2006
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I guess the Sapphire Radeon X1600Pro HDMI card is the first card to
solve this issue?
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Anonymous at 02:49am 05/17/2006
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I agree, everytime I thing about how bad HDCP @&@#@ us all in the
&!%, I almost lose it! We have lost our freedom right before our
eyes!
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Anonymous at 06:34am 05/1/2006
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PC industry fighting Hollywood 'tooth and nail'?!? I doubt it
somehow! Microsoft don't care about anything other than making sure
they monopolise a market (hence all the DRM stuff that forces you to
use WMA, MCE, etc.). Everyone else just wants to sell their products
anyway they can.
From a hardware point of view, HDCP is simply a matter of replacing
the Silicon Image DVI transmitter with the HDCP version and updating
the graphics driver. So for boards with external transmitters, it is
a simple build option - just fit this or that otherwise identical
part. For boards with transmitters built in to the GPU, it requires
the HDCP key to be in the GPU. Any GPU whose specs state 'HDCP
supported' should have this otherwise they are lying!
The real problem is money. Not the $15,000 licensing fee or the
$0.005 royalties, but the '$unlimited' lawsuit fee when someone
hacks the driver and disables HDCP, publishes the hack and thereby
allows the whole world to watch protected content on a non-HDCP
monitor. At that point, Hollywood jumps on your back for millions if
not billions of dollars of compensation. Because, according to
Hollywood, if you can watch it you can copy it. And part of the
licensing agreement is that you are to blame if someone hacks your
product.
That is why most/all graphics boards do not support HDCP. Certainly
it is why ours didn't (I used write drivers for a GPU manufacterer
until recently). We have sample boards with the HDCP keys on, we
have the software written, we have watched video on HDCP monitors.
But management are too frightened of lawsuits to sell any.
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Anonymous at 08:11pm 04/29/2006
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Oh man. You guys just don't know.
When you said Alan, that HDCP has been around for years, that should
have made you wonder.
What has been actually happening is the PC industry has been
fighting the movie industry tooth and nail, to PREVENT copy
protection! They have been doing this for US! On our behalf! And
now people are beating the crap out of them for it.
Oh, so Blu-Ray will have HDCP? So what? If nothing can play HDCP
they'd have to turn it off.
It always amazes me how people jump to eagerly give away their Fair
Use rights, their privacy rights, their speech rights. They bend
over and are grateful for their a55-fscking by the Republican elite
who are laughing behind their backs. We are no longer a free
country. We are a corporatocracy... right next door to fascism,and
people are DEMANDING it.
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Anonymous at 08:47am 03/28/2006
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because HDMI is just a connector that is it, to push digital video
and audio in one interface. HDCP is the protection. I cannot
guarrantee the monitors have HDCP but 98% of the time HDMI is
bundled with HDCP. If you read the licensing the HDCP+HDMI are
cheaper together.
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findmyip at 02:41pm 03/27/2006
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how does people in firingsquad knows those monitors you listed as
HDCP ready are really HDCP ready? some of the specs on the monitors
doesn't even mention about HDCP
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Anonymous at 11:58am 02/28/2006
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Alright Guy, it looks like you don't understand this technology or
understand what the hell the author is talking about. So let me
break it down for you.
If you have a HDTV with HMDI input then you already have HDCP
encryption( HDCP keys are used to authenticate devices so you can
output in HD because movie studios are scared if they don't do this
then you will steal there movies in HD). Regardless of whether you
think the movie studios suck or HDCP should be overturned the fact
is its there already in your monitor. Now if bought a $500+ video
card that has DVI output then you can use a DVI-HDMI cable to view
content ( videos, etc etc) in HD on your HDTV, or so you thought.
Are you following me? You already spent tons of money on the video
card and HDTV so once you find out that because the video card
cannot do the HDCP handshake with the monitor that the stuff you are
watching on TV is standard Definition not High Definition, you still
with me? reply if your not... So what the author is trying to say is
WTF! I could have bought a 100 video card to output Standard
definition, I should get my money back for the first video card.
Why? because they advertised it.
Now if you haven't bought a NEW video card then don't worry about it
until you decide to buy one.
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Nishua at 09:49am 02/28/2006
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Great F**king Article. Even though most of these idiots arent gettin
what you guys are trying to say. I understand that the corporations
out there are trying to scam us. I don't understand how they could
neglect something they knew was in existence for years (meaning
HDCP). I personally was going to be a new PC this month (meaning
March), but it looks like Ill be waiting to Sept or later.
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Anonymous at 10:31pm 02/27/2006
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What is the big deal? The writer seems to imply that if we do not
have HDCP (in order to view Blu-ray or HD-DVD) it will be a
disaster.
Sorry, but I just do not buy this. I am perfectly satisfied with
DVD, and I WILL NOT upgrade my monitor and video card just because
of HDCP. And why should I upgrade to Windows Vista anyway? Windows
XP is good enough at present. For games, when I have time I mostly
play old games rather than new, so a new version of Windows is not
necessary for me.
Surely games do not need HDCP to play?
For me HDCP is totally irrelevant and it will not affect my future
purchase decisions. In fact I will do my best to avoid using Windows
Vista for as long as possible.
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yelloweye at 01:54pm 02/24/2006
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Four days ago I posted a link to your article on NCIX.COM'S Forum.
It created a furor. I linked them to the ensueing Daily Tech , and I
took 600 hits in two days. I hope that they all linked here to this
article. Awsome work gentlemen thank you.
yelloweye
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